Small group · 6 days
Black Hills of South Dakota
- Badlands National Park, Mount Rushmore, South Dakota
- Small group, 2–14
$3,119from / person
Destination
South Dakota
Named after the indigenous Lakota and Dakota Sioux people, South Dakota is filled with history, adventure, and a wide range of astounding landscapes. As you experience the unique beauty of the glacial lakes and prairies, you’ll want to continue your journey west and explore the Black Hills and Badlands. Join us on our featured tour through South Dakota, Black Hills of South Dakota, to experience it all!
Our tours of South Dakota visit and focus on the following places:
- Badlands National Park
- Black Hills
- Custer State Park
- Deadwood
- Devil's Tower, Wyoming
- Mount Rushmore
- Wind Cave National Park
South Dakota in photographs
Trips that go here
Planning a trip to South Dakota
Almost everything visitors come to South Dakota for is in its south-west corner, within about ninety minutes of Rapid City: Mount Rushmore, Crazy Horse, Custer State Park, Wind Cave and Jewel Cave in the Black Hills, and the Badlands an hour east of them.
Custer State Park is the one that surprises people. It holds a free-roaming bison herd of well over a thousand animals, and the Wildlife Loop Road through it is genuinely a wildlife drive; the Needles Highway alongside it threads granite spires through tunnels cut barely wider than a vehicle.
The Black Hills are forested and cool and sit around 5,000 feet; the Badlands, an hour away, are bare rock and can be thirty degrees hotter on the same afternoon. Trips here usually take in both, and the packing has to cover both.
One date to plan around: the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally in early August brings several hundred thousand people into the Black Hills and fills lodging for a hundred miles.